Dr. Olajide Damilola, Health Economist UK & Senior Research Fellow IPPA

Dr. Damilola Olajide is an Economist with research interests in Health Economics, Industrial Organization and International Development. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland UK, where he specializes in microeconometric analyses of interventions to reduce health inequalities, relating to the impact of lifestyle choices (such as smoking, diet, alcohol consumption, and physical activity) on health outcomes. His research on smoking contributed to banning of public smoking in Scotland in 2006. He has presented papers at several public health conferences across the world and published widely in health economics. He is a member of several international organizations including, International Health Economics Association, European Health Economics Association, African Health Economics Association, Scottish Economics Society, Australia Economic Society, Partnership for Economic Policy, Canada, etc. Prior to joining Aberdeen, he was a Lecturer in Economics at Monash University, Melbourne Australia, where he obtained a PhD in Economics.